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London, Gb

London, Gb

Promoted into an overarching role, responsible for strategic projects as well as digital transformation across the practice. Directly working with the partners on improvements to the architectural design processes and the operational and business practices. Leading the digital transformation with a focus on creating and implementing the knowledge management strategy and systems, while taking into account the change management and human factors that this transformation will entail. Pursuing the ultimate goal to create a learning environment that promotes knowledge sharing and fosters collaboration. Key responsibilities:• implementation of a new practice management system to establish a source of truth (successful)• facilitation of a new data-driven way of working, breaking down silos between departments• development of practice-wide data model and process definition for a digital, connected practice• documenting and facilitating a practice plan with a portfolio of strategic initiatives• establishing a digital team of data analysts and digital connectors to facilitate automated dataflows• building out the practice infrastructure with a software stack to support projects and departments• re-engineered core financial data and processes to enable live financial health views on projects

London, Gb

Working with the New Projects and Communications Director in an interdisciplinary team, facilitating the procurement of new work, from establishing an initial approach to new projects in bid submissions to accompanying competitions. Developed a systematic submissions library to underpin the strategic ambitions for the practice with key reference projects and built up a data-driven approach to have a stable flow of incoming work and a New Projects strategy.Key responsibilities:• setting up a new generation of processes and data models for New Business workflows• business development, from first client contact to handing over to design teams• design communication of winning bids and competitions (a.o. Rolex Building New York)• member of sustainability working group

Zürich, Ch

Combined my backgrounds in engineering and architecture, to co-design the ETH Week programme that gives students the chance to follow a collaborative design process across disciplinary boundaries. It brings together up to 200 Bachelor’s and Master's students every year. They come from all study programmes within ETH Zürich, a technical university in Switzerland. Each edition addresses a major societal topic, providing students with the opportunity to engage with real-world problems and to find solutions by pursuing their own interests, such as sustainable development, innovation, design thinking, or interdisciplinary learning.Key responsibilities:• concept design of the programme bringing together ideas from different disciplines• engagement across the university, involving 50 internal/external partners each year• project management and organisation of the programme with a budget of 25.000 CHF/day• on-the-ground preparation for and running a fast-paced 6-day conference-type • design of innovative workbook that disseminates knowledge to the 200 students and tutors• published concept, implementation and findings of the initial four years in book publication

Part of the rotating editorial team of the trans magazine, a journal of multiple cross-disciplinary perspectives on architectural and urban issues. Co-management of the magazine together with three other colleagues for one year within the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.Key responsibilities:• edited, and published the editions ‘trans 25 – Speculative’ and ‘trans 26 – Lust’• developed the editorial strategy, selected and edited 50 articles, • produced layout for print, gathered advertising revenue• led interviews, organized events to foster a local discourse

After participating in the ETHiopia Urban Laboratory Summer School on sustainable housing for the World's Poorest, I got involved in organizing and tutoring the following four summer school editions on the following topics in relation to sustainability: waste and life cycle analysis (2011), world food system (2012), urban grammars and sustainable cities (2013) at the Future Cities Lab in Singapore, technology and public health (2014).Key responsibilities: • tutoring of case study work with 10-15 students• prepared and edited the documentation and evaluation of the course • provided logistical, organizational, and administrative support • also, design and layout the first sustainability annual report along GRI guidelines

Architectural assistant after the completion of the BSc degree. Worked on urban design for the Inner-City Living, Berne project during the refinement phase with the local authorities and the cooperative housing associations.Key responsibilities:• production of plans, digital and physical models, and calculations• strategy booklet for authorities and cooperative associations• construction documents for private house project House Peacock, Aldeburgh• study for the extension of youth center Eichholz, Wetzikon

To finance my architecture studies, worked as a teaching assistant in mathematics, as a translator for corporate and scientific texts, as a graphic designer on layouts and 3D visualizations, and as a waiter at the generation-bridging Senior Design Factory.

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

Research in the field of digital color photography and image processing with the goal to explore novel camera architectures. Explored the potential of the extra data captured by camera sensors, usually discarded because outside the visible range. Decided to shift my interests to the intersection of computer science and the built environment. Therefore left the doctoral school to study architecture (2009-2015) in addition to my first degree in computer science so that I can pursue an interdisciplinary career in both fields.Key responsibilities:• produced an algorithm with state-of-the-art results• IEEE ICIP’09 conference article published, over 180 citations• expanded on initial work, writing a research proposal • passed candidacy exam and all required doctoral courses

Mortsel, Belgium, Be

Became a full member of the Research and Development team after my thesis traineeship to implement the novel technology into Agfa Graphic’s commercial software product. Leadership on all color reproduction issues related to gamut calculations.Key responsibilities:• software development and work on mathematical libraries• collaboration with the development team and print practitioners

Mortsel, Belgium, Be

Research project looking at how to map multi-dimensional (4+) ink spaces onto a ‘gamut’ that represents human color perception to model and visualize a device’s color range. Applied and built on competencies of problem analysis, execution, and innovation.Key responsibilities:• mathematical problem analysis, innovation, and working prototype• scientific report (MSc thesis ‘07 EPFL) with the highest possible grade

Dublin 2, Ie

At one of Accenture’s seven innovation hubs, explored how to enable elderly people to live longer in their own homes independently through technological opportunities. Use of statistical machine learning models (HMM) for behavior recognition.Key responsibilities:• produced code that builds and trains HMM from real visual data • proof of concept, developed scenarios and interfaces

Master Of Science In Architecture (Msc), Architecture And Urban Design

Master Of Science (Msc), Information And Communications Technology Engineering

Erasmus Exchange Programme, Stockholm, Sweden

Exchange Programme, Ahmedabad, India